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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
THE PLACE FOR POOR MEN.

An exchange says gentleman In the
east writing to friend in Kansas says:
Il understand that the laws of Kansas
favor the poor man. while those of Mis-
souri, favor the rich" So far as Kansas
is concerned this is indeed true. Kansas
is the poor mans home. Not only are
good wages the rule here. but the law of
exemptions is such as to be great IN
ducement to poor men to settle mere.
The law is as follows: A homestead to
the extent of 100 acres of farming lands,
or one acre within the limits of an incor-
porated town or city, occupied as res
idence by the family of the owner, to-
gether with the improvements on the
same, shall be exempt from forced sales
under any process of law. and shall not
be aEenated except by joint consent OF
husband and wife, when that relation ex-
lists No value is affixed TO the home
stead. 1t may be worth million dol
lars. No personal property Is exempt
for the wages of servant. mechanic or
clerk. Every person resident In the state
and being the head of family shall have
exempt from seizure of attachment or
execution or other process issued from
any court in the state family Bibles,
school books and family library, family
pictures, and musical instruments used
BY the family, all beds, bedsteads and
bedding used by the debtor and his
family, one sewing machine, one
spinning wheel, one cooking stove
and appendages necessary for the use OF
the debtor and his family, and other
household furniture. not herein men
toned, not exceeding $500, two COWS,
ten hogs, one yoke Of oxen. one horse or
mule. a span of horses or mules and
twenty sheep and their wool. necessary
food for the support of the stock for
one year, two plows and other farming
utensils not exceeding 800; grain, meat,
vegetables, groceries, etc. for the family
one year; the tools and implements of
any mechanic, miner or other person for
the purpose of carrying on business, anu
not exceeding $500 in value, library I'M
plements and Office furniture of any pro-
fasSional man
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
RAILROAD MATTERS.
The Annual Report Of the Atchison,
Topeka 81 Santa Fe

Topeka Capital.
The annual report of the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe railway has been pre-
sented to the State Board of Railway
Commissioners of this state in compll-
ance with the law. 1t shows that the
capital stock authorized by the company
is sos. 000, 900; total stock issued, 1854, 903-
$50: amount issued during the past year
which was for the purchase of the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe was s3,45S, 900.
The outstanding bonds of the company
amount to $34, 1855. 900. and the annual
interest on these bonds is s1.666, 200. In
addition to this there is outstanding S10,-
2S4. 00O on leased roads on which
1853. $50 is payable by the Santa
Fe for rental This principal and
interest is guaranteed by the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe company. During
the year So. So. 900 in bonds have been
issued. The total amount of paid up
stock and debt is Sill, $50. The
total cost of construction and equip
ment to June 80. 1887, is S135, 125 OBI OF
which 81. 030, 247 is In Kansas. The
length of main and leased lines is 1885
miles. The cOmpany'S equipment now
consists Of 500 locomotives, So first-clasS
coaches. 4 chair cars, s official cars. 2pay
cars. half interest in 38 Pullman cars,
80 emigrant sleeperS, ID express cars, 20
be- ~gage cars. 4. ABB box cars, 251 fruit
cars. 81 stock cars, 1915 coal cars, so
fiat cars and 1873 combination cabOoses.
The average rate per mile for through
passengers is /. "A cents: for local passen-
gers. PSI. The road has 1856 employees.
The average wages to laborers Is $l.40
per day.
During the year the railroad carried
al 1913 tons Of grain, 40,002 tons of flour
203, 4f3 tons of cattle, 277,560 tons OF
lumber. III ole tons Of iron. POP ,044 tons
of stone, COS. 1897 tons of coal and l4S, 934
tons of merchandise, or a total Of 3,24l,-
6S1 tons.
The number Of passengers carried was
,449,7 01.
Three hundred and ninety-three thous-
and and sixty-eight tons Of coal were
consumed by the company.
The number of tons of traffic moved
eastward was 1,281. 166, and i $3.50, 159
We're moved westward.
Inc IOtal earnings IOr uile year '" dc
$15 ,946, 139.
The total expenses were $1,000, 102, OF
which $685. GS were operating eX-
penses. During the year $l46,995 We're
expended for construction, $685., SAT for
equipment. 1896. 495 for taxes. A divl-
dend at the rate of 6 per cent was paid.
During the year S60S.0 was received
from outstanding contracts for the sale
Of lands granted by congress. There are
1851 shares of Santa Fe stock owned IN
Kansas, of which i $50 shares are owned
by Col. c. K. Holiday, OF Topeka.
The Chicago, Kansas & Western report
has also been filed at Topeka. 1t shows
that the earnings of the company for the
first six months of the year were 1862
2l7 and the operating expenses were
$144 $50.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
AFTER TWENTY-THREE YEARS.

Hartford Times.
On Wednesday afternoon. May 6, 1864,
Colonel MoesCh. of the Ninth regiment
New York National guard COR the
Eighty-third regiment New York volun-
teersl was killed in a charge during the
Battle Of the Wilderness, near the Brock
road. one and one-half miles south of
Wilderness Tavern, above Fredericks-
burg, Va. S. c. Roe, chaplain of the
regiment, buried his colonel in a Sc
Guided corner OF the private burying
plot upon the estate of Major Horace
Lacy. No visible mark was placed to
attract the attention of the passer by,
for fear that in those bitter times some
heartless wretch might desecrate that
grave because it was the resting place of
a Union officer
The battle of the Wilderness and the
war itself were fought to the close. The
multitude of officers and private soldiers
went home to pursue their chosen avOca-
tons. Some found refuge in foreign
Climes. and all were so intent upon the
business OF life. together with the excite
ment and Joy of meeting home friends.
that when quiet came upon the troubled
land many who had shared the hardshiDs
of soldier life had disappeared from the
view OF their comrades. Such one was
Captain 5. c. Roe. the only pesson who
knew the resting place of what was NOR
tai of Colonel Moesch. Considerable cor
respondenCe had passed between parties
here. and those of the regimental Organi-
zation TO which the colonel belonged by
those anxious TO learn the location of
that unmarked spot. Nothing satisfac-
tory could be CLEANED from the meager
descriptions of the locality Of the tragedy
until the recent return of the chaplain:
and he has cleared away all obstacles in
the way of the fulfillment of long cher
ished hope. He has sent to Major Bird
sail. superintendent Of the national Gene
terry. plan of the private cemetery in
which he had placed the colonels dead
Notwithstanding the point where it
would be found Faithful to these in
Structions search was made. and with
success. The pine box had entirely
decomposed, save a portion OF tie
bottom. Fragments OF the poucho tent
cloth wrapped around the BODY. We're
found. but crumbled on exposure 10 the
air. An entire human skeleton was ex-
humed. together with pieces Of clothing.
buttons denoting state and rank. belt
buckle. &c. and upon the bottom of the
coffin lay leaden bullet. Confederate.
the missile guilty of that deed of death.
This Is one of the many remarkable
circumstances that are the children of
war. I.aat out of the thousands killed
and buried on that battle field, after q
lapse of twenty-three years, one should
be brought to light and identified. is in
deed wonderful. The remains were re-
moved 10 the National cemetery and a
handsome memorial tablet IL 10 be placed
over them, in the near future, by the
survivors of the regiment.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

There is a family in Butler county
each member of which has six fingers on
each hand. The little finger is doubled.
I.arned is UP with the procession. One
of her citizens struck vein of salt $50
feet below the surface while digging a
well.
1t won't be long before every girl in
Kansas will wear silk stockings made
from home growth material, and eat
taffy of Kansas sugar.-Linn County
Clarion.
A man named Reeves. living near Nc
Pherson. was hooked by a COW, the cow S
horn entering under the mOlar bone and
literally tearing away one side OF his face.
Seven thousand bushels of wheat have
been sold in Scott county this fall. A
great deal of it has been used for seed.
Large returns are expected next year
Scott County News.
Twentv-one West Virginians have, in
the past two weeks, arrived In Scott
county and are buying lands in Valley
township. They are well-to-do farmers.
Scott County News.
The twentieth annual meeting of the
Kansas State Horticultural society will
be held at Marion Center, Marion county,
Kan, opening Tuesday, December 10,
and continuing three days.
w. S. Basom. of Clark county, is one
of the heirs to fortune of $4,000 re-
Gently left by arelative in Michigan. He
| has gone after his money and Will return
to his home in Clark county.
A good deal of cotton was grown in
Kansas this year, enough to keep alive
the hope that some day Kansas will raise
and manufacture her own cotton as well
as her own sugar and silk.
Col. Goss, state ornithologist, left on
the thirty-frst ult. for an extended
tour through lower California, and the
western coast OF Old Mexico, to secure
additional specimens of birds for the
state collection.
A foetus, now in the possession of Geo.
Newman. Of this city, taken from cow,
has two heads. four eyes and two mouths.
! This is one of the extraordinary freaks of
nature and has attracted the attention of
large number Of the curious and those
given to the study of such monstrosities.
! Chase Republican.
Last Saturday we met man from
Wilmer, the first station from Coldwater.
He showed us lump of coal taken from
the four foot vein found at that place,
only 100 feet below the surface. This is
the best find of the .'black diamond
ever reported in southern Kansas. If the
coal exists there, as this discovery indi-
Gates, the people of Clearwater will find
the c., X. & W very important road.
Clearwater Independent.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

The Atchison Champion thinks 1.-The
best method to reduce the enormous sur
plus in the United States treasury is TO
put it into circulation in the way of pub
lie improvements. Two hundred mil
lions of it could be very wisely devoted
to the improvement of our western water
ways" There is no doubt of the cor
rectness of the proposition, but it is use
less to talk about using any amount Of
the surplus for the purpose named as
long as the present ruling party retains
control of the government. The last
congress passed a bill making fairly
liberal appropriation for the improve
ment of the waterways of the country
but it failed 10 receive the vitalizing
force of the presidents approval, and not
only was there no funds made available
for prosecuting work already under
taken, but heavy losses have resulted by
the enforced abandonment of such work
at number of points. The country
need not expect TO see a spirit of enter
prise and development of resources man.
lfested by the government as long as its
control remains in the hands of the pen
ny wise and pound foolish party that
has hampered it the past three years.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
A NEEDED REFORM.

Now that the election is over, and men
can calmly survey the field, custom
that is prevailing in this, as well as In
other places, may be referred to without
doing an injustice to any man or party.
We have in mind the spending of money
in political campaigns 1t is getting to
be beyond the ability of man Of ordin-
airy income, or a poor man, to run for
an office with any prospect whatever OF
success. Money must be spent to secure
work in the wards and townships for the
election of delegates to the nominating
conventions. And it not unfrequently
happens that candidates are required to
pay for the dinners of delegates to these
conventions on the day of their assem-
bling to make nominations.
1t takes money to employ men and
teams to see that the registration is at
! tended to, and on the day
/ of election a vast number of
men must be employed to distribute tick
cts at the various voting placet.' Teams
and men must be employed to bring luke
warm voters to the polls. We do not
think it out of place to say the recent
election in this county cost the candi-
dates ten thousand dollars.
No particular party or candidate is to
blame for this. 1t is the result of a Gus
tom that is allowed to prevail. 1t is an
outrage on the intelligence and integrity
of the people. This thing can only be
stopped by men Of principle in all parties
deecreing that it must stop. 1t is an out
rage that in a government of the people
the official should be required to spend
money to secure bis election. In this
country the citizen is the sovereign and
the official the servant. We are bound,
however, to confess that a good deal
of the poetry is knocked
out of this position when
the servant is compelled to hire a team
and haul the sovereign MP TO be register
ed, and then hauled him up again to
vote If the servant neglects this duty
the sovereign will very likely fail to ex-
ercise his sovereignty. These negligent
sovereigns are menace to the Republic
and if their political heads were chopped
off, the cause of free government would
not suffer.
If both the Democratic and Republi-
can parties should give out next fall that
they will rot nominate any man for an
Office who makes personal canvass, and
that no more money shall be raised for
the campaign than is necessary for legi-
innate purposes they will have done a
good thing.
In this and every other city there are
money for their services in an election
The great majority of such men are
mere dead beats" who take advantage
of the situation to bleed the candidates
They never fail when demanding money
of a candidate to state that they are in
destitute circumstances and notwith-
standing their preferences they will be
compelled to work for the other fellow
if their demands are not complied with.
These leeches could be shaken off by all
the candidates agreeing and sticking to
it not to give them a cent The people
could encourage the candidates to do
this if they are so minded.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
WATER SUPPLY AND FALLowING

Reports gathered by the Farmers Re-
view and to appear in its issue of this
week, show a continued scarcity of
water for stock in many sections, es-
peciallv in the states of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Iowa. Unless copious rains
are experienced before the setting in of
winter many farmers will find them
selves involved in serious difficulty in
providing necessary water for their
stock The continued drouth in these
states has also lessened the usual area of
fall blowing. From Missouri u counties
report water plenty, and % report ii
scarce; II counties report more than the
usual amount of fall plowing being done,
report the usual and IA less than usual.
From Iowa 16 counties report water
plenty. and Al report it scarce: 50 coun-
ties report the usual amount of fall plow-
ing done. more than the usual and 4
less. From Kansas % counties report
water plenty and II scarce; 16 report the
usual amount of fall blowing, report
more and II less. From Nebraska q
counties report water plenty and 4
scarce; counties report the usual
amount of fall blowing, 5report more and
: less
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
The Two BurchardS.

Emporia News.
Burchard was undoubtedly good as
Republican as any in the party when he
made his famous "R. K. R" remarks
and they We're undoubtedly his honest
sentiments-which were loudly cheered
By many of those present. And Mr..
James G. Blaine was held responsible for
them. With equal justice should the
soldiers at Macon be held responsible for
the insane utterances of General Jack
son. either in his drunken orgies in the
CITY of Mexico or when he made his
Mandatory remarks TO JEFF Davis at
Macon. The cases are parallel, and
Jackson and Burchard. while both
speaking their private sentiments, have
saddled them on their friends, who
will have TO bear the burden.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

Henry George, in speaking at Albany
said: Il do not believe in prohibition, no.
do believe intemperance is checked by
high license. To my mind licenses and
taxes increase, rather than decrease.
drinking. l would favor either free
trade in rum, permitting the free sale by
everyone, or government monopoly Of
the liquor traffic, as is the case in Sweden,
where liquor is sold by salaried officer
under government legislation. l prefer
the latter 1t may be observed. how
ever, that as political factor Mr.. George
has been proven of very little consequence
as to results in this country. He is a
theorist with little Of the practical about
him.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

Now is the season, if ii has not already
been done, for comfortable provisions to
be made by farmers and stockmen for
sheltering stock. 1t is well known fact
that the stock that is provided with shell
ter, and protected from the storms of
winter, require less feed and come out in
the spring in good condition; and yet
many men who could do this with little
expense have no protection for their cat
tie except barbed wire fence. These
are the class who usually lose half their
stock by the storms of winter, and then
decry the country.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

1t is true that the enemy retains pos
session of their strongholds in Mississippi,
Virginia, Maryland and New York at
which points we had hoped to break their
lines, but they were replushed with
heavy losses in Massachusetts,, Pennsyl-
vania. Ohio and Iowa and driven incon-
tinentely from the field. Well, perhaps
it was too much to expect sweeping
victory at every point so soon after defeat
with the enemy still flushed with victory
and entrenched in positions made strong
by whatever method and appliance an
unscrupulous foe could invent The re-
suit of Tuesdays contest is valuable TO
the Republican party in that it shows
where it will be necessary to concen-
trate forces in reforming the lines for a
renewal Of the contest.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

The triple alliance between Germany,
Austria and Italy, recently announced,
promises good results in the direction of
the maintenance of peace in Europe. The
fact is that Germany is most anxious for
this end in view of the advanced age and
physical infirmity of the emperor and
the threatening character of the disease
that is now preying upon the crown
prince. 1t is intimated that the relations
between England and France are grow
ing in cordially.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
Notes.

Increased activity in the export of
wheat is noticeable on the Pacific coast,
and eight ships We're chartered last week
to load wheat at San Francisco and Port
land, Ore, for Cork and a market.
An ingenious Frenchman has invented
an air-brake by which the traveller only
has to pull rope to bring the train to a
halt. and at the same time to detach a
signal which indicates in which compart-
ment-car the help is required.
The amount of railway bonds on which
interest will be paid this month reaches
1924, 800 900, and the interest SIS ,OS7, 252,
or So. 507 $50 greater than in November,
1886. Dividends will be paid on $685.
CPS, S22 Of stock, the payments being
s. ,S65, 091, or about $l,O00,000 larger
than last year.
Travel west bound seems to be on the
increase daily. But few of the roads
west Of the Mississippi river are able to
handle the business promptly which Is
daily being turned over to them. The
Oldest passenger men say they never be-
fore saw such test on the passenger de-
partment of the western roads.
The Kansas lines will hold a meeting
in Chicago this week. 1t is stated that
the roads have been working at cross
purposes for some time: an effort will be
made to harmonic matters. The meet
ing was called by Chairman j. W. Midg
ley, of the southwes tern association.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

Approaching the interest felt by the
public in the occurrences at Chicago yes
terday we arranged to receive telegraphic
dispatches covering the details up to the
execution. This news was given In an
extra edition of the EAGLE at noon. A
large number Of copies were required to
supply the demand.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

The success Of the Republican candi-
dates for congress in the Second Rhode
Island district IN Tuesdays election gives
that party majority of state delegations
in the fiftieth congress. This means
that if the election of president is thrown
into the House thirteen or fourteen
months hence, by the failure at the polls
to make a choice, the Republicans will
name that officer.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

The effect of the new postal and tariff
arrangements between the United States
and Mexico is already perceptible in a
large increase of trade, the returns from
Paso del Norte alone showing an in
crease during September of IS per cent
in exports from this country free of duty,
and of II per cent in exports paying
duty. The value of goods thus exported
free of duty was S452 ,466, and of the
dutiable exports 1921, 92S.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
9ai1g gayle
MARSHALL NJ. MURDOCH. Editor,

1t has gone forth that law is supreme
in Illinois and that law is death to the
men who interfere with the customs of
society. Dynamite can not be substi-
tuted for arguments, nor anarchy for
law and order
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

In view of the discussion of the gov
eminent postal telegraph question now
going ON through the press of this coun-
try, it is of interest to note that the sys-
tenn in England yields OILY a constant
deficit, which has grown from about 50
900 in 1880 to over $2,300,0O0 for the
years 1857. The growth of the business
has been rapid and satisfactory, but the
expenses of the service grow constantly
greater in excess of receipts.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

George Fordham, the great English
jocky, had engraved on his coffin plate
the epitaph 1T is the pace that kills. :"
The moralist may find food for reflection
in the quotation, but after all it is simply
question whether one prefers to wear
out or rust out The former is striking
American characteristic.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

A movement to buy the battlefield of
Shiloh has started at Pittsburg Landing,
Tenn, and Grand Army posts all over
the country are asked to aid the project.
A land company is to be organized, and
conference to arrange details will soon
he hold
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

DIR. McGlynn predicts that Rome will
retract and he will again be restored to
the church The doctor shows every in
dication of growing weary of the froth
and lollipop in his political surround
ings. 1t will be observed that the pre-
diction was made after the doctors fol-
lowing failed to rally at the polls. The
result of the election rather places the
recalcitrant divine in the attitude of
Othello.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

Castor beans flourish in this state in
about the same degree as corn and sor-
ghum. As crop, however, they seem
of late years to have lost popularity in
Kansas, as last years crop was but 30, Gil
acres and 500, 40 bushels, while as long
ago as 1877 it was 50,S45 acres and $751;
356 bushels. The great bean year, how
ever, in this state was 1879, when up
wards of 6S,000 acres Were planted and
yielded 76.. 200 bushels. Nearly the en-
tire crop is marketed in st. Louis. One
or more castor oil mills NOTABLY one at
Ottawa) have been erected in Kansas.